Pick holder and carrier.



No. 828,805. PATENTED AUG. 14, 1906?. J. G. BIRD.

PICK HOLDER AND CARRIER.

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PICK HOLDER AND CARRIER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 14, 1906.

Application filed January 18.1906. Serial No. 296.697.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, J OHN G. BIRD, a citizen of the United States, residing at Canton, in the county of Fulton and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Pick Holders and Carriers; and I do declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to improvements in holding and carrying devices for picks.

The object of the invention is to provide a device of this character in which is adapted to be placed a number of pick-heads, whereby said pick-heads will be he it together and may easily be carried from pl ace to place for use.

With the above and other objects in view the invention consists of certain novel fea tures of construction, combination, and arran ement of parts, as will be hereinafter dcscri ed and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of a holder and carrier having arranged therein a number of pickheads. Fig. 2 is a vertical cross-sectional view of the same; and Fig. 3 is a horizontal sectional view on the line 3 3 of Fig. 3, showin the holding-plates in 0 en position.

eferring more particu arly to the drawings, 1 denotes a holder which consists of a bail-shaped frame 2, having side bars 3 and 4, connected at their lower ends by an integrally-formed cross-bar 5. The upper hinged ends of the side bars 3 and 4 are rounded and threaded, as at 6. Secured to the lower cross-bar 5 between the side bars 3 and 4 is a centrally-disposed combined holding and carrying bar 7, the up er end of which is bent or curved into the orm of a hook 8, by means of which the device may be carried or sus ended from a suitable support.

ivotally mounted upon the upper rounded end of the side bar 4 are the two upper cross-bars 9, said bars being arranged one above the other, as shown. The bars 9 are provided on their inner edges with alinin recesses or notches 10 and 12. When the are 9 are swung inwardly into engagement with each other, the recesses or notches 10 will ongage the central holding and carrying bar 7, while the recesses or notches 12 will engage the reduced upper end of the side bar 3 thus securely bracing and holding said side bars and holding-b ar in proper position. Adapted to be screwed upon the threaded upper ends of the side bars 3 and 4 above the bars 9 are nuts 13, by means of which the upper crossbars 9 are securely held in place.

In placing the pick-heads u )011 the device the nuts 13 are loosened an the lates 9 swung out of engagement with the holdingbar 7, as shown in Fig. 3 of the drawings, which will permit the ick-heads to be readily sli ped onto the 1101 ing-rod 7 between the sidiz bars 3 and 4. After the pick-heads have been thus arranged upon the holder the cross-bars 9 are again swung into engagement with the holding-bar 7 and the side bar 2 and the nuts 13 tightened up.

The holder may be constructed in any suit able size, but is preferably sufficicntly large to hold twelve pick-heads, which when placed therein will be securely held and maybe conveniently carried from one place to another. The hook-shaped extension 7 serves as a bandle for carrying the holder and also as a means for suspending the same from any suitable support.

From the foregoing description, taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, the construction and operation of the invention will be readily understood without requiring a more extended explanation.

Various changes in the form, proportion, and the minor details of construction may be resorted to without departing from the principle or sacrificing any of the advanta es of this invention as defined by the appen ed claims.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. A pick holder and carrier com rising a holding-frame, consisting of arailel side bars, a cross-bar connecting the ower ends of said side bars, a centrally-dis osed holdingbar fixed in said lower cross- )ar, pivotallymounted cross-bars arranged on the upper ends of said side bars to connect the same and sup )ort the upper end of said central holdingar, means to removably hold said upper cross-bars in place and a supporting and carrying handle arranged on said frame, substantially as described.

2. A pick holder and carrier com risin a holding-frame, consisting of para lel side bars having their up )(I ends reduced and threaded, an, integra cross-bar to connect the lower ends of said side bars, a centrally- IIO disposed combined holding and carrying bar secured at its lower end in said lower crossbar, u )per cross-bars pivotally mounted on the re uced upper end of one of said side bars, said up or cross-bars having formed in their inner edizes alining recesses adapted to be enga ed with said central holding-bar and the reduced upper end of the opposite side bar, nuts adapted to be screwed onto the reduced upper ends of said side bars to hold said u per bars in place, and a curved or hoo sha v ed extension formed on the up er end of sair central holdin bar to form a andle or hanger, substantia y as described.

In testimony whereof I hereunto set my I 5 hand in presence of two subscribing Witnesses.

G. L. MILLER, J. L. MURPHY. 

